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Russian Billionaire In Exile Boris Berezovsky Commits Suicide - The First Cyprus Casualty?
Just your ordinary run of the mill Russian billionaire oligarch in exile who had so much money he was terminally depressed... or just the opposite, and the first tragic casualty of the Cyprus capital controls which are about to eviscerate a whole lot of Russian wealth (and ultraluxury Manhattan real estate prices)?
Exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has died at the age 67, according to a Facebook post from his son-in-law Egor Schuppe. Details regarding the nature of his death are yet to be released.
His death has not been officially confirmed, and details have not been disclosed.
According to Schuppe, Berezovsky was recently depressed. He failed to keep in touch with friends and acquaintances, and often chose to stay at home rather than go out.
Damian Kudriavtsev, the former CEO of Kommersant Publishing House also commented on the businessman’s death saying he passed away at 11:00 GMT in London.
On his twitter account, Kudriavtsev said there were no signs of a violent death.
Aleksandr Dobrovinksy, a famous lawyer and head of Moscow-based The Alexander Dobrovinsky & Partners law firm has said that Berezovsky committed suicide.
“Just got a call from London. Boris [Abramovich] Berezovsky committed suicide. He was a difficult man. A move of disparity? Impossible to live poor? A strike of blows? I am afraid no one will get to know now,” the lawyer said on his social network page.
BBC confirms the death:
Berezovsky has been found dead at his home in Surrey.
The circumstances of the death of Mr Berezovsky - a wanted man in Russia, and an opponent of President Vladimir Putin - are not yet known.
A former Kremlin power-broker whose fortunes declined under Mr Putin, Mr Berezovsky emigrated to the UK in 2000.
Last year, he lost a £3bn ($4.7bn) damages claim against Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich.
Mr Berezovsky claimed he had been intimidated by Mr Abramovich into selling shares in Russian oil giant Sibneft for a "fraction of their true worth".
The allegations were completely rejected by the London Commercial Court judge, who called Mr Berozovsky an "inherently unreliable" witness
His name was Boris Berezovsky.
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Sure he did.
That possibility did not occur to me ... I guess they are not telling us. Ever.
One of the most powerful people in London, I don't believe people like that commit suicide. I always have my doubts anyway.
i think they meant to say he was suicided
Ultimate Counterparty Risk. Perhaps Boris was holding money for, or owed a debt to, the wrong counterparty. With the money parked in Cyprus, Boris would have had difficulty getting it back. Suicide or suicided it's the same thing. Lots of people are going to realize there is no way out.
Have a few Russian friends in Sunny Isles and Miami Beach and they don't play...
quite possible.....even billionaires are "owned" by someone else
So there's his buddy saying that he passed away at 11:00 and next we'll wind up seeing him in a video timed at 12:00 of his buddy saying that with the supposed deceased standing there talking to him a la Building 7
When the 1% start offing themselves, what should the 99% do?
http://www.planbeconomics.com/2013/03/documentary-one-percent.html
sitbback and enjoy
<golf clap>
I am NOT so sure it was a suicide.
Things become more and more interesting every single day.
The other news: Putin called his national security council to consider the Cyprus affairs.
A well timed warning to Cypriot MP's.
I can't think of a good enough joke for today....
"According to Schuppe, Berezovsky was recently depressed. He failed to keep in touch with friends and acquaintances, and often chose to stay at home rather than go out."
LOL. This isn't just any "suicide". It's a BILLIONAIRE suicide. Can't they come up with something more plausible than the same old boilerplate?
Mr. Berezovsky or Ambramovich or whatever his name really was desrved better.
I don't know.
If you got to the point where blow jobs, lobster
and building up the ultimate secret underground base
wasn't any fun any more,
maybe a dude would kill himse....
NAH.
You had me at blowjobs.
He drank the Kool-Aid
http://thespiritoftruth.blogspot.com/2013/03/boris-berezovsky-assassinat...
When a billionaire commits suicide you know the economy is really shitty.
Few things, if any, in life are sure bets. However, many things we do are unsustainable, period, and in this case, dead men tell no tales. The latter is particularly useful if they were privy to information that would turn the world on it's head.
I wonder if his personal assistant drafted a suicide note
Snuffed.out.
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And yes, billionaires are nothing compared to royal special bloodlines...You know - the ones that own in one case, 1/6 of the worlds land mass...ones that have their picture on that very currency the 'billionaire(s)' hold...
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'These' people we are up against arent elected...they are born.
Somebody's on a wanted list, lots of money, circumstances of death not revealed. Why would you POSSIBLY be suspicious? LOL, anybody who takes a report like this at face value probably already owns several bridges.
Sooner or later, Putin is going to tap every single Jew-Pluto who tried to hijack Russia during privatization. He should be an inspiration to us all.
Sometimes I'm thankful that I'm less than a pawn on the chessboard of life
why do they all look like DSK??
Throw a party?
What is the deal with you commies floating around with your propaganda all the time? You have no coherent commentary to offer yourself?
Thanks for posting that link to this documentary, this is a first of it's kind.
This Surrey estate was not the one (Sutton Place) owned by J. Paul Getty in the 1960s,
which is now owned by another Russian, Alisher Usmanov. Berezovsky’s Surrey estate
was south of Guilford and southeast of Godalming. Some English newspaper reports
say that Berezovsky had sold his Surrey estate and died at his home in Berkshire near Ascot.
According to VirtualGlobetrotting.com his Berkshire estate is near Englefield Green,
which is east of Ascot, southeast of Windsor, and southwest of Heathrow airport.
Thanks for the link. Great doc. If it takes one of the scions of the 1% to remind us of the dangers of oligarchy that breeds malignant capitalism it should inspire the remaining 99% to preserve the free market. Freedom isn't free.
Eeeeen soh viet rassha suicide commit you.
The Russian oligarchy money-laundering model is not working anymore. For more than20 years, Russian oligarchy plundered Russian people, and now their money was confiscated by the Zionist Banking Mafia. Well, there is no honor left amongst thieves and gangsters anymore. It is just awful.
PS
Who is next after Berezovsky. I could not be just a one-man show.
May OI add,with a little help from friends in this country.
Jeepers Creepers.
Our Boris and Natasha should look out from sky falling pianos.
Google be Praised
He didn't "suidcide"; he collapsed gravitationally due to his girders overheating. Happens all the time.
If we're lucky, George Soros had a tidy stash in Cyprus too....
When you make a deal with the devil, sometimes he comes to collect a little early.
Hmm, well Pure Evil should know the ways of the Devil... :>D
The new Troika strategy....wack the billionares and take thier money to fund bailouts. Gates, Buffet, et al should really watch thier backs. The mafia are like NEMO compared to these central banker sharks and squids
99% of people would agree with this strategy. What have billionaires ever do for anybody? You don't become a billionaire by being a good hard working guy.... you become a billionaire because you're born into it... or by dirty money, killing/hurting/robbing thousands/millions of people... or by taking over a market while destroying every competition out there.
All billionaires are frauds.
Poor Boris should have read ZH. Then maybe he would have had the money in his own hands as phyzz..rather than some scumbag banker/politician's 1's and 0's.
Thank God for the 2nd Admendment, so they can't take over here.
I think your right, he was holding or owed money to the wrong person and couldn't get some or all of it out of a certain island. A man like this was suicided he didn't do it himself. And your right about the Russians, when your in with them many of them have people they know in the underworld or are in the underworld, they definitely don't play around.
Before Putin moves on to Cypriot legislators, he had to clean-up old, unfinished business.
you keep talking like that and you'll end up suicided yourself...
Seeing this...I can't help but think of that great old song by Satchmo, "What a Wonderful One World Order".
Berezovsky was born in 1946 in Moscow to Abram Markovich Berezovsky, a Jewish civil engineer
One from the tribe down. Many more to go of the monied class.
Don't let the door hitcha where God splitcha!
6 of the 7 'oligarchs' who bought up russia's oil for pennies on the dollar from the drunken globalist stooge Yeltsin are/were Jewish.
And their multiculti-lady gaga shit doesnt work on the russians or putin.
Good luck to them
@Pharming - plus 100 for the updated Satchmo title!
The retitle is very funny and thanks also for puyting that beautiful song in my head. That old guy went out with class, at the top of his game. RIP
Of course it was suicide...hehehhe......what else could it possibly have been........lol
"pull it"
Was his underwear on backwards like Vince Foster?
In The City, suicide kills you
In the City, the City suicide you.
Yup! +1
I don`t think he was keeping [all] the cash in Cyprus. You can also keep the black money in Austria. Per the Austrian banking law:
As of September 2009, those provisions are supplemented as follows:
Bank-related information will be provided to the requesting country if it may be assumed to be relevant for purposes of taxation or criminal prosecution in the foreign tax payer's native country.
The relevance of such inquiries shall be explained by the requesting country and is subject to examination by the Austrian authorities.
Simple inquiries not accompanied by concrete evidence of a particular individual's affiliation with Austria are definitely inadmissible.
Each inquiry must be made in reliance on a legal base (e.g. double taxation conventions, Community law, or other international treaties).
Latvia is also a prime spot for parking black money in the EU.
As a rich billionaire he was not keeping all the eggs in one basket.
The Cyprus fiasco is interesting because all these "new rules" violate all matter of European Law, making the point that all "guarantees" in the EU are actually worthless. This is not a good a development for the EU.
I'm not so sure he was having that much cash left in his last days. He lost court case to Abramovich and some say it was a last straw for his financial well being, especially given his lifestyle he got used to in Russia. Sure, he had conflicts with Putin and was generally very critical of him, but for Putin Berezovsky was more of nuisance than a threat. Sad though, he was a colourful character.
JUST MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A ACCIDENT OR A SUICIDE OKAY! That's where I pay you for!
The Bourne Identity.
He was supposed to have died in a way where the only possible explanation was that he'd been murdered by a member of his own entourage. I don't send you to kill. I send you to be invisible. I send you because you don't exist.
When we have the privilege to read Bernanke's obituary ???
When we have the privilege to read Bernanke's obituary ???
LaGuarde already wrote it.
I believe it's called pleasure
"Found strung up, hands tied behind his back, stabbed six times in the back and shot twice....an apparent suicide," said authorities.
"First they came for the Russian billionaires in exile, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Russian billionaire in exile..."
pithy mcmolotov - might I add piquant too!
ah good old zh you never let me down.
ZH: Come for the news, stay for the pith!
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In an interview with Sky's Jeff Randall in 2009, the exiled Russian businessman, Boris Berezovsky, claimed oligarchs including Putin used the rest of the world to launder money and assert control.
http://news.sky.com/story/1068891/boris-berezovsky-russian-oligarch-foun...
I agree. Too much of a coincidence. Was he one that put that 900 million in put options against the Euro? I bet there are going to be more suicides in the headlines in the next couple of weeks of power players.
Let them all go after each other, saves us the trouble... More popcorn please, I am okay with picking up the pieces after their all gone. Gets more interesting each and every day, reaping, sowing and all that.
Wiki says:
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (Russian: ?????? ?????????? ????????????, 23 January 1946 - 23 March 2013)[6][7] was a Russian business oligarch, government official and former mathematician. He was assassinated by Russian FSB agents in London on the orders of Vladimir Putin. He was a member of Russian Academy of Sciences. Although once a supporter of Vladimir Putin, Berezovsky clashed with the new president soon after his election in 2000 and was a vocal critic for the remainder of his life.[8]
This guy was as "Russian" as Trotsky, Sverdlov, Lenin, Kamenov, Kaganovich, Radek, Beria, Yagoda... Read why these "Russians" fear Putin:
http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=198
Yep, remember ol' Putti-Poot had Berezovsky's friend and associate, Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned with the rare radioactive poison, Polonium 210. Many think this was a "message" to Berezovsky... "You're next."
Yep, like have said several times, by nature they are cannibals. You will see more and more instances of cannibalism as it all unravels.
The shots of the currency wars are being fired everyday. Things are only going to get more and more heated.
http://jimrickards.blogspot.ca/
So what is the motive (for either suicide or homocide)?
Was he assisting the Troika, advising on Cypriot banking matters?
Maybe a 'message' to the russians...............??
I didn`t know he was friends of the Clintons.
Long overdue.
Just another day, the executive appointed mouthbreather was promised da riches.
Former Enron Executive Kills Himself, Police Say | January 25, 2002
Future Newz headings. Famous multibillionaire philanthropist commits suicide. Disparity over extracting new wealth redistribution prospects caused extreme depression.
/Tit for tat.
Lots of possibilities here. 1) he's not dead. Will undergo surgery and re-emerge a new man. 2) he was killed as a warning to the Russian mob. 3) who the hell knows?
He's dead hivekiller. This act sends out a message to others. Taking out the queen bee will kill the hive. Understand?
What's the 1/2 life of polonium-210? Autopsy report to follow shortly after.
Would you like to kill yourself with polonium in sushi or cigarette today, sir?
He shot himself in the head six times...........
Exactly, because if you are worth 10 billion and they take 20% you are now only worth 8 billion. Thats a good reason to kill yourself.
@Pimp Juice
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I heard it was 7... He emptied a revolver, reloaded & the final one did him in...
Even if they took 80% you'd have $2B, that would keep you in blowjobs for quite a few hundred years
He also hung himself for good measure.
That was just in case the ricin delivered by umbrella point didn't take.
Boris liked to clean his shotgun while taking a bath.
Now that was funny ! (on at least two diffrent levels)
and was still able to plaw a axe in his back after it. Now that's what I call commited!
What does plaw mean in Belgian?
having sex with your sister. why you ask?
I was curious because it sounded so horrible, but if it means having sex with your sister maybe it's not so bad.
I suppose next you'll say she's a virgin, and it'll only cost me 10 kroner.
Right in line with that banker guy that stabbed himself in the chest 30 times in a car park a couple months ago because he felt so bad for what he'd done right...?
or last week's Italian bankster who fell off the roof a 10-storey building while cleaning the rain-gutters
Reminds me of an old Benny Hill skit:
I din't kill him. I was buttering me bread and he fell on me knife........seventeen times..........backwards.
Assisted suicide?
He was just interviewed on bloomberg 2 days ago. Very coherent, upbeat guy.. Not even a 1% chance he commited suicide.
You don't have to be incoherent to contemplate and/or commit suicide. Nor do you have to be not "upbeat" especially in front of a television camera.
Now you've got me worried about Jay Leno.
Thats a fact, suicide is about control, if the rest of your life is falling to shit and out of your control a process of elimination shows you one things is in your control, your life or death, so you take control, one last time, perfectly logical I think
When I was about ten, the owner of the neighborhood grocery store, a man I knew well, killed himself.
I thought it was terrible, frightening, and inexplicable.
Then my father explained he was just diagnosed with brain cancer, and had watched his father die of the same disease.
Logical, indeed.
My grandmother did the same thing... CANCER...
Double...soz
No more free bagels for him. He was sucide-d. Hopefully Putin goes after Roman Abromovich next and while he is at it - go look for those European bankster families who murdered the Czar's family and 30 million others plus more for a good profit. The bankster families who have made the western world misery for the past 400 years.
Berezovsky and Abramovich were hardly friends - in fact Berezovsky recently lost a big legal battle to get 3 billion that he claimed Abramovich owed him. There were reports that Berezovskys legal bill was in the 10`s of millions.
His former girlfriend was seeking to have his assets frozen - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/boris-berezovskys-former-...
No doubt his death will remain a mystery - but he was not a man without problems or enemies
Abmrovich and the rest of the Chelski team hopefully, leave Zingarevich alone though he owns my team
The murderers of the Czar and his family: http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=644
Freddie is going on the $PLC hit list
Wow.
Lagarde gets raided and now a Russian oligarch commits suicide... is this a preemptive strike against Russians to send a message before the 70% haircut vote? We want details from his lawyer -- hot tub, bullet, poison, or fast acting pollonium?
My guess is he drowned in the tub while shooting himself in the back of the head multiple times, taking an OD while he dropped the toaster in the bathtub while slitting his wrists while having a massive heart attack.
Putin may now announce a $20 bilion bailout of Cyprus. Whack a few more oligarchs and Russia owns Cyprus and probably Greece. Go Vlad!
"My guess is he drowned in the tub while shooting himself in the back of the head multiple times, taking an OD while he dropped the toaster in the bathtub while slitting his wrists while having a massive heart attack."
Suffocation. She had awesome thighs.
Suicided ?
He was inconsolable after hearing that natgas rationing is coming and Brits may freeze in the dark.
Anyone remember "Robert Maxwell" who jumped off his yacht:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell
Robert Maxwell was born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch into a poor[2][3] Yiddish-speaking Jewish family in the small town of Slatinské Doly (now Solotvino, Ukraine), in the easternmost province of (pre-World War II), Czechoslovakia. His parents were Mechel Hoch and Hannah Slomowitz.
Or Jeffrey Picower aka friend of Madoff who went for a swim. The wife later gave up the billions he "earned" with madoff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Picower
On October 25, 2009, Jeffry Picower died at his Palm Beach home. Picower's wife, Barbara, told dispatchers she found him "at the bottom of their swimming pool" at their oceanfront estate shortly after noon, Palm Beach police said. He was taken to Good Samaritan Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead about 80 minutes later.[25]
According to the Palm Beach Police Department, "An autopsy of the body of Jeffry M. Picower was performed this morning. The Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office determined that Mr. Picower suffered a massive heart attack while in the swimming pool resulting in accidental drowning."[26]
Jeffry Picower Born Jeffry M. PicowerMay 5, 1942 Died October 25, 2009 (aged 67)
Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. Ethnicity Jewish[1] Occupation Investor, lawyer Spouse(s) Barbara Picower
wtf is it w/ these heart attacks and suicides
http://www.businessinsider.com/olivier-metzner-found-dead-2013-3
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/17/russian-killers-on-streets-o...
An awful lot of City lawyers can save their daily viagra dose for the next 5 years.
With his money he could afford a stunt double
why would he killed himself??? he was in the uk and a very wealthy guy.
makes no sense. even if he would lose a lot of money in cyprus he would still have enough to live a prosperous life.
i don't think this is a coincidence. :/
RIP
RIP-OFFer. Do you think he got rich honestly? Good riddance!...
Perhaps he asked to have his physical gold delivered to him from the vault.
NO SOUP FOR YOU!! BACK OF THE LINE!
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Another footnote in history.
suicide by polonium 210.
you wonder why you can still buy that stuff in any grocery store there days...
So, how are things in the land of Waffles? Thanks for the early morning giggle.
Do you ever sleep, SD?
Please don't start now. We need the comic relief;)
Suicide?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Berezovsky_%28businessman%29
So, did he use PSS silent pistol. Well, it starts with one and then you might have an epidemic.
He has survived numerous assassination attempts, including a bomb that decapitated his chauffeur, and has been a wanted man in Russia, charged with fraud and political corruption, since 2001.
His recent calls for the overthrow of President Putin have led to further attempts by Russia to have him extradited from Britain where he is in exile.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/6249880.stm
Suicide really??
Please Vlad - come Red Dawn - Amerika. Help us clear out the vermin in DC, NYC, LA and Chicago. Just send real Russians not these fake Cuban B-movie actors that Milius used in the first film. Also bring some Russian hottie womens.
Wolverines!
That's the the thing.....the occupiers never bring their own cootchie to share with the locals. Just guns.
Sure, you might be able to get an AK for a bottle of Pabst. But it'll set you back a six-pack for a head-nodder with no other redeeming qualities.
Makes me wonder what Putin thinks of the Chicago gang? I hear the Russians have a pretty bad ass mafia of their own, partners or mortal enemies?
"Makes me wonder what Putin thinks of the Chicago gang? I hear the Russians have a pretty bad ass mafia of their own, partners or mortal enemies?"
Unless he's into Michael Jackson memorabelia and fur capes, he's probably thinking they're a bunch of fucking retards.
A close friend confirmed to The Telegraph that Mr Berezovsky died at his estate in Surrey.
The circumstances of the death remain unknown but the 67 year-old businessman is thought to have been found dead in his bath.
It will inevitably raise questions about nefarious activities because Mr Berezovsky had survived several assassination attempts, including a bomb that decapitated his chauffeur.
He was also a close friend of Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian dissident who was fatally poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 in London in 2006.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/9950107/Russian-...
You know, for somebody who is already named "Boris", it seems quite redundant to have to label him as "Russian" also.
Boris the Ukrainian Kosak and Boris the Bulgar might disagree
Where there is Boris, there is Natasha. Now where is pesky squirrel?
Boris the Blade aka Boris the Bullet Dodger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfMB88KalsY&feature=related
I'm from glorious land of Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan greatest country in the world
All other countries are run by little girls ....
Irrelevant.
Everyone knows that Ukrainians are just Russians with a simultaneous inferiority complex and a superiority complex.
As for bulgar, who cares? That is only cracked wheat. It's not like there is any such place as "Bulgaria" anyway. LOL, "Bulgaria": the Land of Cracked Wheat!
It was all a lot simpler when we could talk about Boris from the USSR
Messing with the King of the Beasts can be very consequential.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHqy-chPMnM
One gone, plenty more to go...
Warning to the Troika? "We take out our own. Think we'll hesitate to take you out?"
maybe just a jewish internal matter ?
I read they found pork in supposedly halal food; maybe it got into kosher food, as well, and he got depressed as consequence.
Again and again, this seems to me like INTERNATIONAL ELITE INFIGHTING. Aiming at anything over Eur100k was the first clue.
I've long sustained that QE's goal is to supply primary dealers and major euro banks which are hyperoverleveraged, with MONEY TO PAY FOR DERIVATIVE LOSSES.
However, this money would be going to winning counterparties. My suspicion has always been that the winning counterparties are POWERFUL RUSSIAN AND CHINESE OLIGARCHS.
I've always relied on ZH to prove/disprove my conjectures. My conjecture that Lehman was sacrificed on JPM's altar was proven correct here on ZH.
It looks to me that the conjecture that the winning derivative counterparties are powerfull russians and chinese could be proven correct....quite soon. Winning counterparties are starting to disappear or robbed.